imho guns are much to expensive for the small bonus you get when doing normal leveling/farming but when doing things that you need everything you can get out of your char like BCNM i would recomend using a gun

I have another question for those of you that spent some time around lvl 22 messing with guns.

How often did you miss when Sharpshot on?

I'm wondering how well it would work to use a crossbow most of the time, then switch to the gun when I use sharpshot, fire one or two rounds, then put the crossbow back. Yeah a bit of a waste, but it'd make sharpshot count for quite a bit more that way. Any ideas on that?

Guns are only for show. The best bow will do near the damage of a gun. The best bow in the game will out damage the best gun in a battle. Againist HNM Rangers are worthless in a party, regular NM a rangers does fine. A gun takes almost twice to shoot. Your tp build will be slow, unless you use a Sam sub. But a sam won't help your range accuracy. Rangers are about WS and WS chain, so you got to build up tp. Guns are not reliable in their accuracy, slow tp build up and expensive.

Im a lvl 24 RDM/ 8 THF. First of all, Im wondering what the h3ll is a HNM. Second, I wanted to know If being Ranger/Ninja would be good. Because Of the Ninja's dual wield (2 nice daggers to use) and since there are daggers / knives that increases ranged accuracy. Is this a good choice to make? I'm building up my archery and dagger skill with this character. BTW, Im hume.

Steelfleece is just a reqular NM lvl 60-65. What im talking about are Hnm like the Orc God. You where probably fighting Ramapagin Ram, Steelfleece would powned you. Their is a difference in fighting a mob and jus being there in the back ground. Steelfleece has a badass Aoe. One that make lvl 70 think twice before engaging him.

That came from a high lvl japanese ranger, so i think he knows what it is like. The prolblem is that you wont get invited into a pt. Hnm are aroun 85-90ish in lvl, with high evade and defense.

LOL why is it that people think these JP players are god, that what they say, must be the absolute truth? LOL and besides, just because you say a JP player told you this on some message board, is suppose to add some sort of validity to your statement?

Why take the words out of context? Why do you choose to focus on jp player and not the high level part? Jp players are statistically much more experienced than NA players. And the fact that it is a high level player signifies experience. Although it isn't 100%, I rather believe a Jp high level player than random posters on a forum.

you start missing less higher you go, well... depends on your gear too, if you have sucky gear, you'll miss more. (duh)

Good luck with guns, i plan to stay bow. Bullets are way expensive. With a top notch bow, and top notch ammo, you should be able to do good fairly good amounts of damage. I would use guns if I could afford it. hehe, it's just cool looking

Do RNG's actually miss more? Or is it because our weapons have some of the longest delay's in the game that it gets noticed more.

Even at lvl 17 against most mobs I don't miss often except when my group is fighting something above what we can handle. And even in those cases sharpshot can make up for the difference.

You're right, rangers don't miss any more than melee classes do. Any high level melee is loaded with as much +accuracy equipment as they can afford, and they'll still complain about missing too much. The trick is that as you get higher in level, you have to fight monsters that outlevel you by more to get the same xp. +6/7 mobs are great prior to level 30, but post 50 you'll be fighting stuff that's 10 levels higher than you sometimes. It's not bad if you have a bard in the party - their +accuracy songs are insanely good.

After reading all this talk about guns im really worried they might not be the best choice. On my Warrior i pulled with an x-bow so my marksmanship is gonna be maxed out until level 25 or so.

Knowing that i decided to go crossbow/gun path i wonder how the comparison is between crossbows and guns and which one is better for which level. I do have some bow skill but not nearly as good as my marksmanship.

After reading all this talk about guns im really worried they might not be the best choice. On my Warrior i pulled with an x-bow so my marksmanship is gonna be maxed out until level 25 or so.

Knowing that i decided to go crossbow/gun path i wonder how the comparison is between crossbows and guns and which one is better for which level. I do have some bow skill but not nearly as good as my marksmanship.

RNG is not really like other jobs, where you can pick one weapon and stick with it. Post 50, you should really use both. (gun does significantly more damage, but ammo prices are insane even by RNG standards) Prior to LV50, you MUST use a bow at least some of the time. RNG uses x-bow to level Marksmanship, and that's pretty much the only reason to use x-bow. Bows deal more damage than x-bows at almost all levels.

on an unrelated note...what is the most you can have your ranged accuracy supplemented by? And keep in mind the 2agi = 1ranged acc. thing...cuz im an elf and i dont like missing, but elves miss a lot...so i have a problem, yes? any info about my question is appreciated